The name may suggest drug cartels and violence but the reality is a scenic, friendly country escaping its past

It is nearly midnight when I hear a knock on my hotel door. At first I am alarmed. I am alone with my three young children (my husband is not joining us for several days) in Cartagena, Colombia, a country that doesn’t feature on most lists of family-friendly destinations.

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